Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Give Allardyce the credit he deserves!

(Article submitted by Kevin in Manchester in response to "Allardyce shows his true colours")

You are wrong on so many levels to criticise Allardyce on the back of lat night's victory over Brighton.

Firstly Sam laid out his plan even before the season started ... play like security dogs away and more expansively at home. So the home bit hasn't worked out- the more reason why he should cling onto every point away from home. He also expressed last night how disappointed he was with the way we used the ball...not his fault if the players can't pass and and control a ball.
Secondly .. listening to Poyet after the game was pure West Ham.. we were beat but we played the best football.. well, that will get you what you deserve, as you say mid table or worse.

Thirdly earlier in the season you were warning that we had not played any of the big teams and I think you quoted Brighton .. well, now we have been there and tonked them. So rejoice!

Fourthly we are a classic championship side - a collection of old war horses, has beens, not quite good enoughs and youngsters with potential but still scarred from three years of mismanagement and disaster. You say we should wipe the floor with average teams but why? We are an average team .. which is what most of your posts subconsciously or otherwise admit and what I believe is at the root cause of your rage: you can't accept it even though you know it.

Fifthly we have stuck four goals past four sides this season already - and I can't remember if West ham have ever managed that before, so to characterise the team as clueless hoofers is just wrong.

Finally give the guy a break: he's been in charge for 13 league games and in that time shipped out 19 and imported 12 players, and still managed to score more goals and win more games than all bar Southampton, a well drilled team that's played together for a couple of seasons now.

14 comments:

Howyoodoin
said...

My feeling on this is that West Ham have played shite pretty much all season and still find themselves 2nd in the league. That tells you all you need to know about this league. Most difficult league in the World to get out of? Don't make me laugh. It's only made difficult by the fact that nearly every team in it is equally rubbish, so it's a bit of a lottery. Any decent team of Premier League standard would walk it.

I agree Lord Canning but after relegation surely the idea is to use the Summer to strengthen your team (which I think we have done) and use the coming season to get back to playing Premiership quality football (which we may still do).

If that is not the aim then it's a bit pointless going for promotion only to see your team get humiliated week in week out in the Prem, isn't it?

Take your point HYD,but we have not strengthened our team. We have filled it with tripe for the sole purpose to ''win ugly''. Once we get promotion the owners will need to spend big and get in the quality players that you allude to. Short term pain, long term gain my friend.

What do you want, yes the football is'nt pretty but pretty will not get us out of this division. This season is about consolidation and discipline which has been lacking in recent years.I know sometimes our illustrious owners speak without thinking but remember without Gold and Sullivan's investment we would probably be in administration and struggling to stay in this division with a large points deduction.

HYD, in your terms our team last year was not of Premier standard and we got relegated - poor management notwithstanding. This year it is full of past-it premiership players, (Carew and Nolan) and loanees like Lansbury who will be off back to their parent clubs. Do you seriously think that last night's team could play in the premiership? LOL. It is a squad/team to do a job and if that job comes to a successful conclusion we'll all be happy. Now I must away to attend to some errent pigs that have been seen by HF flying over my county pad.

Sure we're winning and more successful than we've been in the past. But in the past at least we stood for something, now we stand for nothing. Let's not kid ourselves, we shouldn't be struggling against Brighton, we shouldn't be getting beaten by teams like Ipswich and if we go on a losing run which is very likely if we go on playing like we are we quickly find ourselves in mid-table. This team and Allardyce are an embarrasment to West Ham.

No Tommy, embarassment is when a West Ham team containing Moore Hurst and Peters lost 0-3 to Mansfield in the FA Cup. That scenario has happened too frequently over the years. To be sitting 2nd in the Championship is not embarrasing. 33 more ''win ugly's'' will do quite nicely for me thanks.

That's not embarrasing at all Lord Canning, every team loses games like them. Man Utd lost 6-1 at the weekend, but no one is suggesting they should sack Fergie, hire Pulis and play rugby! Allardyce, players like Diouf and the olympic stadium will be the end of West Ham and any credit it still has.

Makes me so annoyed when people go on about rubbish football. We havent been playing good football for a few years now (zola tried but didnt succeed). We are second, not far from first. Back the team, back Big Sam and stop moaning!

From Tom

Hammersfan, I am a British soldier ... just home from the winter in Afghan, I was at the Boro cup game where my boy took a half time penalty during my leave ...

I love your blogs .... keep em coming .. its great fun and I love all the saddo's that criticise you ... free country, freedom of speech ... we all have a choice n all that ... well if you don't like .... read the Sun ..

(Cheers Tom, an endorsement like that would outweigh 15 million idiots wanting to close this site down.)

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